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UK-based Cello Health Insight has appointed pharma sector veteran Claire Derbyshire as a Director in its European Client Services team. More
Healthcare and consumer marketing business Cello Group has acquired US-based biotech asset development strategy consultancy Defined Health. Terms of the deal have not been disclosed. More
Cello has made a 'significant investment' in its audience intelligence division Pulsar, and merged it with its qual specialist agency FACE. Further details about the investment have not been disclosed. More
Bryan Atkin, co-founder of UK research group RS Consulting, has died after a battle with leukaemia. He was 72. More
London-based Cello Health Insight has appointed former Kantar Health exec Duncan Munro as Joint Head of 'IQ', its specialist quantitative research practice. More
London-based agency Cello Health Insight has hired former Ipsos exec Maria Eletskaya as a Director in its European quant research 'IQ' team. More
Two agencies have given updates on their (potentially rather different) accounting headaches. comScore says its internal investigation into accounting irregularities should be completed next month; while separately, Cello Group has settled a VAT dispute with an agreement to pay a total of £5.3m. More
UK-based pharmaceutical and strategic marketing group Cello has announced a 7.4% fall in revenue to £157.3m for the calendar year 2015. However, profits and earnings per share rose and the Group says it has made a good start to 2016. More
Cello's social media intelligence division Pulsar has launched a quarterly study called 'Dashboard', to uncover insights around car brands and their digital audiences. More
Full service agency 2CV has appointed Andrew Lam to lead its North Asian quantitative business, from its office in Hong Kong. More
UK-based 2CV has promoted Sabine Cronick to Head of Quant, and Nicola Godfrey to Head of Qual. More
In the UK, Damian Eade has returned to Cello Health Insight to take up the newly created position of Global Head of Digital. More
Consumer specialist 2CV has promoted Adam Short from the role of Head of Quant to Managing Director of its operations in London. More
Cello-owned co-creation agency FACE has appointed six new consultants in New York and London, following several new clients wins in the digital sector. More
Cello Health has launched a smartphone and tablet app called 'Fresh Thinking', through which pharma and healthcare professionals can receive targeted thought leadership pieces, comments and insight. More
UK-based health and consumer marketing group Cello has reported a 50% drop in pre-tax profit to £1.7m for the six months to the end of June, driven by investment in its US operations and a £1.1m provision made for an ongoing case with the UK tax authorities. More
Cello Health Insight has strengthened its European quant research 'IQ' team with three appointments: Massimo Bufi joins as a Director level Senior Methodologist and Lisa Rollins as an RE; while Richard Kunzmann is promoted to Director. More
UK-based RS Consulting, part of the Cello Group, has rebranded as Bright Blue. The new brand unites and replaces the four separate identities which have until now made up the RS Group - Consensus Research, Leapfrog, mruk and RS Consulting. More
Cello's social media intelligence division Pulsar has teamed up with social media analyst Datasift to provide Pulsar clients with access to anonymous and aggregated content data about Facebook activity and topics. More
Cello Health Insight has overhauled its online pharmaceutical community platform eVillage with the addition of new tools, functionality and a new, mobile-responsive design. More
UK-based research group RS Consulting has announced seven promotions, including Lorena Arrospide, Rhiannon Jones and Danielle Rodgerson who all move from Senior Research Consultant to Research Manager. More
UK-based health and consumer marketing group Cello has reported a 9.9% rise in 2014 headline operating profit before tax to £81.0m, on revenues up 6.4% to £169.9m. The group has also appointed a new COO. More
Face CEO and founding partner Andrew Needham is stepping back from the day-to-day running of the business to become Chairman, ahead of a planned exit later in the year. He is replaced by COO and co-founder Job Muscroft. More
UK-based health and consumer marketing group Cello has reported 'strong trading' in an update for the year to 31st December 2014. The Health division reports double digit revenue growth and a strong business pipeline for 2015, while growth in the Signal consumer division is slower. More
UK-based marketing services group Cello has acquired US full service healthcare researcher Promedica for an initial $700k in cash, and up to $1.8m more dependent on financial performance in the next three years. More
Insight and marketing services group Cello has had what it describes as 'an excellent half year', with revenue up 9.4% to £78.3m, and a 14.8% rise in gross profits to £39.5m. More
Cello's Healthcare division has continued its recent expansion with the appointments of Zahidah Ahmad and Sunil Sharma as Directors. More
Consumer specialist Firefish has appointed former 2CV exec Sam Elphinstone as Group Head of its Quantitative division, the Numbers Lab. More
UK-based Cello Health Insight has appointed Marie Innes as a Director, based in its head office in London. Her remit includes managing international client accounts on both quant and qual studies. More
Cello's social media intelligence division Pulsar has launched a customer care and publishing platform called FLOW and a social media enterprise analytics tool called TEAM. More
UK research firm Cello Health Insight has launched a continuous staff development programme called BUILD, and promoted Leyla Itani and Helen Porter to lead the initiative. More
After announcing earlier this month its return to Scotland with the opening of a new office in the centre of Glasgow, social research firm mruk has appointed Alison Johnston as Research Manager and Neil Simpson as Research Consultant. More
UK-based division Cello Health Insight has appointed former YouGov exec Dan Brilot as Digital Director, to help drive development of the agency's suite of digital offerings. More
mruk, the social research firm within RS Consulting group, is returning to Scotland with the opening of a new office in the centre of Glasgow, to support a growing number of Scottish clients. More
Cello-owned consumer specialist 2CV has relocated to new premises in Singapore, double the size of its previous office. More
Cello Group has acquired healthcare communications agency iS Healthcare Dynamics for an initial c.£2.5m in cash and shares and additional performance-related payments of up to £3.3m. At its AGM today, the Group also reported 'strong trading in the first quarter'. More
Cello's Health Insight division has launched two new mobile apps designed to provide richer, more relevant quant and qual data. Respondents including patients, healthcare professionals, payors and pharma field forces can include images and record videos as part of their feedback. More
'Socially intelligent' researcher Face, part of the Cello Group, has recruited two senior execs from M&C Saatchi brand agency Clear: James Hirst, as London-based Global Business Development Director, and Sofia Mavros, based in Hong Kong in the role of Research Director of the Asia team. More
UK-based Cello's Health division has launched a product called FutureScope, to help clients understand likely future market dynamics and customer needs within each therapy area. More
UK-based insight and marketing services group Cello has reported an 18.2% increase in revenue to £159.7m for the year to 31st December 2013. More
UK-based marketing services group Cello has unified its health-oriented agencies under the Cello Health brand, bringing together five existing businesses. More
Insight and marketing group Cello has recorded double-digit 2013 revenue growth in its Health and Consumer divisions, according to a trading update. More
Insight and marketing group Cello has reported a 14.3% revenue rise to £71.5m for the six months to 30th June 2013, up from £62.6m in the prior year period. Gross profit increased 7.9% to £34.4m. More
UK-based insight and marketing group Cello has reported 'robust trading' for the first six months to 30 June 2013, and says its Consumer arm returned to revenue growth in the period while its Health division continued its expansion. More
Cello-owned Insight Health US has opened an office in Chicago, where it has appointed former Hall & Partners exec Angela Wheeler as CEO. More
Former Philips exec Oana Stroie has been revealed as the voice behind the Angry_MR_Client Twitter account as she joins Cello-owned co-creation agency Face as an Account Manager. Former NM Incite director Erika Ammerman has also joined the firm, as Head of Social Media Research. More
In the UK, Cello-owned healthcare agency Insight Research Group has launched a Digital Business Team, to help clients understand the impact of new digital channels. Research Director Damian Eade will lead the new initiative. More
In London, Kate Anderson has been promoted to the position of Joint MD of Cello-owned RS Consulting Group. She replaces Phil Stubington, who will now focus on developing the group's key accounts, while leading its innovation development programme. More
Cello-owned co-creation agency Face has appointed Matt Arnold, formerly of The Nursery, as its first European Head of Qualitative Research. More
UK-based insight and marketing group Cello has reported 'solid overall performance' in 2012, with revenues of £135.1m, up 5.8%, and headline profit before tax flat at £7.0m (2011: £7.1m). The firm's Health division outperformed Consumer, but the latter enjoyed a good second half. More
UK pharma researcher and communications consultancy Mash Health Limited and its US business Mash Health, Inc have been acquired by the UK's Cello Group plc, for an initial consideration of c.£0.6m. Separately, Cello has reported 'solid full year performance' for 2012. More
In the UK, Cello healthcare agency Insight Research Group has launched 'IQ', a new practice dedicated to high-end quant market research. Directors Philip Dunn and Gracie van Kemenade will head up the new business. More
New York-based Insight Health US, a part of the Cello Group, has hired former Hall & Partners leader Kathryn Gallant as joint CEO. She replaces Avanti Ananthram who moves to the London HQ of parent company Insight Research Group, for the new role of Head of International Development. More
UK-based insight and marketing group Cello has reported a 2.8% increase in revenue to £63.3m for the first half of the year, but has noted a 'marked slow-down' in qual and quant client research activity across its Consumer division. More
Research group Cello has revealed that it has spent £600k in the last year on consolidating operations and reducing headcount in its Research and Consulting division; and is now splitting its business into two new divisions. More
For the year 2011, UK-based research group Cello has reported 'continuing strong performance' with revenue up 7.2% to £133m and a 6.6% increase in gross profit to £64.3m, driven by its Research and Consulting division. More
In an interim trading statement, research group Cello has announced a 'solid' full year performance for 2011 and says its growing focus on the resilient pharmaceuticals sector is 'paying off'. More
In the US, consumer strategy firm Insight Research Group has promoted Sarah Chumsky to the newly created position of Vice President, Insight Kids, serving as 'thought leader' for the design and implementation of all research and consulting among children. More
In the US, consumer strategy firm Insight Research Group has named Dawn Henry to the newly created position of SVP, Insights and Strategy. More
US-based qual/quant agency Insight Research Group has appointed branding specialist Perry Baldwin for its newly created post of 'Chief Possibility Officer', responsible for communicating both the firm's external and internal 'strategic vision'. More
The Research & Consulting division at UK insight and marketing group Cello has seen a 6.0% increase in gross profit to £19.6m and a 16% rise in headline operating profit to £3.7m for the first six months of the year, despite a 1.3% drop in revenue to £31m. More
UK insight and marketing group Cello has reported that its research and consulting division has continued to 'show good like-for-like revenue growth' despite the loss of two significant retail research contracts, but has meanwhile made a number of staff redundancies. More
New York-based Insight Research Group has hired former Walt Disney brand strategist Cassandra Rowe as Senior Research Manager. The firm has also made a number of promotions. More
In the UK, insight and marketing group Cello has promoted Insight Research Joint MD Jane Shirley and John Rowley, the CEO of its comms division, to the posts of Joint Group Managing Directors, reporting to the main Board. More
UK-based insight and consulting company Cello Group plc has announced the acquisition of pharmaceutical specialist Red Kite Consulting Group Limited, which will be merged with Cello's existing pharma consulting business, MSI. More
New York-based Insight Research Group has added two new directors, Steve Becker and James Streit, to its management team, and promoted four current team members: Sarah Chumsky, David Dyte, Sarah McLoughlin and Supriya Sanyal. More
UK-based insight and marketing group Cello has reported flat revenue for the year 2010 (£59.9m), but also a return to operating profit of £5.5m from a 2009 loss of £1.5m. Cello has also announced it will buy US healthcare communications company MedErgy HealthGroup from its owner DVC Worldwide. More
In its 2010 pre-close update, UK-based Cello Group has recorded a 'strong second half' for its market research and consulting business, and says it expects to report a 20% plus like-for-like rise in operating profits. More
In the UK, custom healthcare specialist Insight Research Group has launched an online pharmaceutical MR community called 'eVillage', to help brands engage with a wide array of healthcare professionals ('HCPs'). More
In the US, Insight Research Group has re-located its Insight Health US team to new offices in Midtown Manhattan, where it has made four appointments. More
In the UK, Cello's Research and Consulting division has returned like-for-like income growth for the first half of the year, driven by 'continued robustness' in client activity levels, most notably in pharma and health-related sectors, as well as international work. More
The Research and Consulting arm of UK-based Cello has delivered a headline operating profit of £6.1m (2007: £6.2m) for the year to 31 December 2008, from operating income of £39.1m (2007: £32.m) and revenue of £66.4m, up 30% on the year. The group describes this as a 'good year' given the economic context. More
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London and NJ-based agency Insight Research Group has promoted Jane Shirley and Nicola Cowland to the positions of Joint Managing Director. Insight is the healthcare MR arm of Cello Group. More
London-based MR and consulting organisation, the Cello Group, has posted a 40% increase in pre-tax profits to £5.9m in the year to December 31 2006, with turnover rising 43% to £74.7m from £52.1m. More
Insight Associates, part of Insight Research Group, has promoted Samantha Hamilton-Stent to the post of Research Director. She joined the company in 2001 after working at Sanofi Synthelabo as a field representative in both Primary and Secondary care. More
Custom healthcare specialist Insight Research Group has recently promoted Natasha Barretto and Viv Farr to Research Director roles in its UK office. More
Insight Research Group, a subsidiary of UK marketing services group Cello, has bought UK fieldwork agency Field Management Ltd in a deal worth £865,000. This is Cello's third MR buy in the last five months. More
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